Michael Arrington
J. Michael Arrington is the Founder and Co-Editor of TechCrunch.[1]
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Personal
He grew up with aspirations to be a corporate lawyer, he did exactly that after attending Stanford Law School. He practiced law for a many years before he decided it was time to make a change in his life, so he stopped practicing law and moved on.
Career History
Mr. Arrington was the CEO of Pool.com prior to joining TechCruch. From 2002-2003, he was the CEO of RazorGator. Prior to which he was the VP of Operations and General Counsel at Global Name Registry.
In the year 2000, he co-founded Achex and worked there as the VP of Business Development for almost one and a half year. In 2001, Achex was acquired by First Data Corp. for $32 million.[2] He has been the VP of Business Development & General Counsel at RealNames Corporation.
Michael started off as a Corporate Attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and practiced Law for two years. He also practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers
Community Engagement
He would start a company called Achex, a company that specialized in online payments to individuals, he sold that company to a place called First Data Corp. making at least thirty two million dollars.
He’s also known as one of the co-founders of the website pool.com where he was the highest officer in charge. Even while being in charge he would also go onto be on the board of directors for Flodera, a software that helped organize data with a tool.
Recognition
The thing that would bring him to fame would be TechCrunch, this blog covered all the internet startups as well as any news that would be covered from a technological standpoint in the twenty first century. Some would call it for Nerds but it actually was some of the most influential pieces around, covering new technologies and getting hundreds of thousands of viewers every day.
Awards and Honors
- He held the 10th rank in Forbe's Web Celeb 25 in 2009.[3]
- In May 2008 Time Magazine named Michael Arrington as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.[4]
- He is widely considered by magazines like Forbes and Wired to be one of the most Intelligent man in the Internet Industry.[5][6]